{"rewrite":{"id":"r_aab5459fa8a5f57266a1ad65","clusterId":"c_7dae25fe711bd20639c0ee2a","slug":"nvidia-confirms-12-9-billion-acquisition-of-hugging-face","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion","summary":"NVIDIA officially announced on September 3, 2026, that it will acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform often called the \"GitHub of AI,\" for $12.9303 billion, roughly 2 trillion yen. The deal is expected to close after regulatory approval. Hugging Face, founded in 2016, hosts over 3 million models, more than 500,000 datasets, and over 1 million applications, used by more than 18 million developers, researchers, and creators. Its corporate users exceed 200,000. The company was valued at $4.5 billion during a 2023 funding round led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Google, Amazon, IBM, and NVIDIA. Recent annualized revenue has reached approximately $150 million. Reports of the acquisition first appeared on August 26, 2026, and the deal has materialized as reported. NVIDIA stated that Hugging Face will remain an open platform, supporting multi-cloud and multi-accelerator environments, and that using NVIDIA computing products will not be required for development or deployment. NVIDIA already publishes over 500 models and over 250 datasets on Hugging Face. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said the founders and entire team will be retained, and its independence from NVIDIA's computing resources will be maintained.","whyItMatters":"The acquisition folds the dominant distribution hub for open AI models into the company that already leads AI chip sales, giving NVIDIA control over both the hardware and the software layer of open-source AI development.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eNVIDIA wrapped its own name into the price. The $12.9303 billion figure, read as \u0026#34;129303,\u0026#34; is the decimal form of the Unicode code point for the 🤗 emoji, which is Hugging Face\u0026#39;s mascot. Co-founder Thomas Wolf said the number also encodes references to both companies. He posted on X that the team did not anticipate, back in 2016 \u0026#34;as a tiny team of scrappy underdogs,\u0026#34; how much the field would grow.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHugging Face has raised more than $395 million to date. Reports say it turned down a $500 million acquisition offer from NVIDIA last year. CEO Clement Delangue said on X that scaling further requires more computing resources, which led to the discussions.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang framed the deal around open models, saying they \u0026#34;enable safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and adoption, and enable sovereignty.\u0026#34; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he looks forward to the growth of the open model ecosystem with NVIDIA and Hugging Face. Google CEO Sundar Pichai noted Google is an investor in Hugging Face and will remain a partner.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHugging Face also operates ZeroGPU, a service that runs AI on high-performance GPUs for free without an account. NVIDIA is already the largest contributor of open models and datasets to the platform.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"NVIDIA's $12.93 billion bid for Hugging Face keeps the platform open and multi-cloud, but the company's independence from NVIDIA computing products is now a formal promise, not a market position.","twitterPost":"Hugging Face's independence from NVIDIA hardware is now a contractual promise, not a market position.","threadsPost":"NVIDIA's acquisition of Hugging Face for $12.93 billion is less about owning the models and more about the guarantee: the platform stays open, multi-cloud, and independent of NVIDIA's own chips. The deal turns a market position into a formal commitment.","newsletterBlurb":"NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, folding the open-source AI hub into the leading AI chip maker. The deal promises to keep the platform open and multi-cloud, even as NVIDIA gains control over the software layer of AI development.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"ASCII.jp\",\"url\":\"https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/432/4432325/?rss\",\"title\":\"NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion (approx. 2 trillion yen), embeds emoji in acquisition amount\"},{\"source\":\"GIGAZINE\",\"url\":\"https://gigazine.net/news/20260904-nvidia-acquire-hugging-face/\",\"title\":\"NVIDIA officially announces acquisition of Hugging Face for over 2 trillion yen\"},{\"source\":\"GameBusiness.jp\",\"url\":\"https://www.gamebusiness.jp/article/2026/09/05/27905.html\",\"title\":\"NVIDIA Announces Acquisition of Hugging Face. 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